Word: haven
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Asked what would be going through his mind as the count ticks down, the center's deputy director, Tom Utsman, said, "I'll be saying that hopefully we have done all the right things, that we haven't taken any shortcuts, that we haven't overlooked anything...
According to Miller, Harvard has persuaded most of the donors' executors to include financial need as a requirement for the scholarships. However, some "haven't been convinced." Students with the surnames Ellis, Downer or Pennoyer, can still receive scholarship money regardless of need...
...HAVEN--Playing without starting quarterback Bob Verduzco (torn knee ligaments), Yale suffered its worst beating at Yale Bowl since 1954 Saturday when it was defeated by UConn...
...social leveling that uniforms can sometimes accomplish is being sought by some inner city schools as well. At Helene W. Grant elementary school in New Haven, Conn., uniforms are just being inaugurated for this school year. Detroit's Mumford High School is raising a ruckus by handing down a get-tough dress code aimed at eliminating flash. The code's language is starchy enough for a military academy ("Misdirected students preen about, modeling flashy, expensive clothing and exerting little energy in their academic pursuits"); on the proscribed list are leather coats, jogging outfits, shorts, designer glasses, designer jeans and "custom...
Given the gravity of the situation, the quip seemed inappropriate at best. "I was struck by the fact that you haven't brought your gas masks with you," Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah chided Western journalists assembled in Baghdad. Yet when pressed, Khairallah was unable to deny categorically the allegation that Iraq employed chemical weapons -- outlawed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol -- in putting down a rebellion of Kurds. Asserting that the use of poison gas was "technically impossible" in the Kurdish villages in dispute, Khairallah reiterated Baghdad's position that, in any case, its war against the Kurds...